[PATCH 12/12] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Mon Oct 28 16:00:53 UTC 2013


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:22:46AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Could you use the efi_enabled() function to test for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
> instead of test_bit()?

Sure.

> This way we won't exhaust the bitspace quite so soon (since ARM/ARM64

Yeah, very foresightful.

> can reuse EFI_ARCH_1 if they need it), plus this memory mapping method
> is a very architecture-specific thing and so makes sense to hide it in
> the bowels of arch/x86. If it turns out that ARM/ARM64 need the exact
> same config option we can delete EFI_ARCH_1 and move EFI_OLD_MEMMAP to
> include/linux/efi.h just like in your original patch. 
> 
> What do you think?

Yep, done and pushed out.

Thanks.

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